Tag: Stop Hudak

A new interactive map produced by CUPE-Ontario shows the estimated city-by-city job losses that would be caused by Hudak’s reckless plan to cut 100,000 public sector jobs. These job cuts would have devastating effects on public services across the province and lead to skyrocketing unemployment rates for many communities. For more details on the devastating [...]

(TORONTO) – New and expanded research shows that Hudak’s proposed cuts of 100,000 public sector jobs would have devastating effects across the province and lead to skyrocketing unemployment rates for many communities. Smaller communities outside of Toronto and Ottawa that rely disproportionately on public sector jobs to keep their economies moving will be hit hardest [...]

(WINDSOR) ─ The province-wide campaign to stop Conservative Leader Tim Hudak and his attack on workers and the labour movement rolls into Windsor 6 p.m., Tues., May 13, for an urgent and large all-union meeting. With only weeks left to mobilize, Ontario’s labour movement is organizing for the fight of its life. It is warning [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 21, 2014 ADVISORY: Campaign to stop Tim Hudak comes to Kingston with Tuesday’s urgent all union meeting (KINGSTON, ON) ─ A province-wide campaign launched last month against Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak will be rolling into Kingston with an urgent all-union meeting on Tuesday, March 25. Calling Hudak’s claim that he [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 20, 2014 ADVISORY: Campaign to stop Tim Hudak comes to Ottawa with Monday’s urgent all union meeting (OTTAWA, ON) ─ A province-wide campaign launched last month against Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak will be rolling into Ottawa with an urgent all-union meeting on Monday, March 24. Calling Hudak’s claim that he [...]

Tim Hudak’s low-wage agenda is hiding in plain sight Ontario PC leader Tim Hudak’s dropping of ‘right-to-work’ leaves the door open to pushing an anti-worker agenda by other means, says the head of the Ontario Federation of Labour. By: Sid Ryan Published on Tue Mar 04 2014. Click here to view the original. Tim Hudak’s [...]

Just as workers unite in a union to protect their rights, so also do unions unite in central labour bodies to fight for better working and living conditions. The Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL) is the province's "house of labour" and serves as an umbrella group for working people and their unions.

From its inception in 1957, the OFL has grown to represent over one million Ontario workers belonging to more than 1,500 locals from 54 affiliated unions, making it Canada's largest provincial labour federation. The OFL's strong membership and militancy makes it a formidable political voice.

The OFL pushes for legislative change in every area that affects people's daily lives, including health, education, workplace safety, minimum wage and other employment standards, human rights, women's rights, workers' compensation, and pensions. It also makes regular presentations and submissions to the Ontario government and mounts internal and public awareness campaigns to mobilize the kind of political pressure that secures positive change for all workers – whether or not they belong to a union.